HINDU WIDOW'S GRIEF
FATAL LEAP FROM ROOF SEQUEL TO HUSBAND'S DEATH . J ' *m. (Received December 28, 11.35 p.m.) CALCUTTA, Dec. 28 Her relatives having refused to allow her to perform suttee, a young Hindu widow of Cawnpore, in an agony of grief, dressed herself in her dead husband's clothes and leaped .from the roof of a house and was killed.
Suttee is the practice of self-immolation on the husband's funeral pyre, an old Hindu custom >vhich was made illegal by the British authorities, but still persists on occasions.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21377, 29 December 1932, Page 7
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88HINDU WIDOW'S GRIEF New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21377, 29 December 1932, Page 7
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